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Determiner
May 7, 2017 23:01:56 GMT 5.5
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Post by Somak Meitei on May 7, 2017 23:01:56 GMT 5.5
Insert determiners in the following sentences whereever necessary. 1) Shree N. Biren is honourable CM of Manipur. 2) The food that he has been spoilt. 3) Rome was not built in a day. 4) Do you have question to ask me? English grammar questions
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Determiner
Jul 8, 2017 23:02:56 GMT 5.5
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Post by Somak Meitei on Jul 8, 2017 23:02:56 GMT 5.5
'' The food'' does not relate to '' that he has been spoilt'' so it sounds abnormal. The that-clause should make it compulsary of being inserted determiners as the question setter wishes to add the clause to ''the food''. But they seem to have the intention of inserting a predeterminer.
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Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Sept 3, 2017 20:57:10 GMT 5.5
A problem in (2). I will concern myself with (2) only here.
Considering that (2) is supposed to be a single large constituent, I think the expression demanded by the grammar of English is either
2.1 The food that he has spoilt.
or
2.2 The food that has been spoilt.
The grammar of English demands that in a finite clause (a) a finite verb is governed by only one subject noun phrase (NP), and (b) a subject NP in a clause should necessarily govern at least on finite verb. A subject NP can support any number of finite verbs.
In (2), reproduced below as (2.0),
2.0 The foodi thati he has been spoilt
the simultaneous presence of he and been renders the sentence ungrammatical. It is clear that food and the relative pronoun that coreffer (i.e., they refer to each other), as I have marked (i). That being the head/introducer of the dependent clause, it functions as either (x) the subject NP or (y) a complement NP (object or complement) in this clause.
Analysis 1 If that is the subject NP, then (b) demands that it should necessarily support a finite verb in a finite clause. This rule, thus, demands that occupy the finite verb has. Then, once governed by an NP, a finite verb is no more available to any other agreement with any other NP (meaning that it cannot serve any other NP in a clause), as (a) demands. This leaves the NP he suspened and stranded. The grammatical expression of (2.0) in this reading is (2.2) above, reproduced here:
2.2 The food that has been spoilt
Analysis 2 If the relative pronoun that is an object in the verb phrase (VP) has (been) spoilt moved to the beginning of the clause, then the finite verb of this VP demands a subject NP according to (a). This means that he should necessarily be the subject NP of this VP. The only NP left available to this agreement is he. (This is also supported by Analysis 2: thatthe object NP in the dependent clause, and it refers to The food.
This demands that the passivizing element been in the VP has (been) spoilt is ungrammatical. This gives the another alternative grammatical expression (2.1) of (2.0):
2.1 The food that he has spoilt
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